Dementia: Person-Centered Assessment and Intervention
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138859915 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This volume serves as a starting point and reference manual for those who want to provide person-centered and life-enhancing services to persons with dementia, and to inspire the continued generation of quality research to demonstrate the value of cognitive-communication, behavioral, and caregiver interventions. Its chapters cover the person-centered assessment process for persons with cognitive and communicative disorders of dementias; intervention approaches for the wide variety of cognitive, communicative, eating/swallowing, and behavioral symptoms and consequences of dementia syndromes; reimbursement and documentation issues for various
Speech-language pathologists in the US will find content on reimbursement strategies to be particularly helpful." -Brooke Hallowell, Springfield College, USA"This book is masterfully written, covering critical topics ranging from definitions and diagnostics to interventions, with a focus on abolishing nihilistic attitudes and moving towards a multi-disciplinary, humanistic, and holistic approach to dementia care. "This volume should be on the shelf of every clinician who works in a medical setting, and will
Her teaching, practice, and research specialize in quality of life and treatment for persons with neurogenic communication disorders, including the cognitive-communicative disorders caused by dementia syndromes. Bourgeois, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow, is a Professor of speech-language pathology at Univer